An adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays as a basis of critical exploration of identity formation in India.

Even while a conscious dismantling of colonization was happening since the 19th century, the Indian literati, intellectuals, scholars and dramaturges were engaged in deconstructing the ultimate icon of colonial presence—Shakespeare. This book delves into what constitutes Indianness in the postcolonial context by looking into the text and sub-text of the Bard of Avon’s plays adapted in visual culture, translation, stage performance and cinema.

The book is an important intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, as it explores how Shakespeare has impacted the emergence of regional identities around questions of language and linguistic empowerment in various ways. It reveals an extraordinary negotiation of colonial and postcolonial identity issues—be it in language, in social and cultural practices or in art forms.

Acknowledgements

Shormishtha Panja and Babli Moitra Saraf

Introduction

SHAKESPEARE AND INDIAN VISUAL CULTURE

Shormishtha Panja

“To Confine the Illimitable”: Visual and Verbal Narratives in Two Bengali Retellings of Shakespeare

CONTEMPORARY SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCE ON STAGE IN INDIA AND THE DIASPORA

Shakespeare and the Re/vision of Indian Heritage in the Postcolonial British Context

Thea Buckley

Indian Shakespeare in the World Shakespeare Festival

SHAKESPEARE AND INDIAN FILM

Trisha Mitra

The Othello-figure in Three Indian Films: Kaliyattam, Omkara and Saptapadi

Paramita Dutta

Shakespeareana to Shakespeare Wallah: Selling or Doing Shakespeare in India

TRANSLATION AND ISSUES OF LANGUAGE AND POLITICS IN REGIONAL SHAKESPEARES

T S Satyanath

Mapping Shakespearean Translations in Indian Literatures

Sayantan Roy Moulick and Sandip Debnath

“Murmuring Your Praise”: Shakespearean Echoes in Early Bengali Drama

Jatindra K Nayak

A Future Without Shakespeare

IDENTITY AND THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE

Preti Taneja

Does Shakespeare’s Text Even Matter?

Naina Dey

Utpal Dutt and Macbeth Translated

SHAKESPEARE AND INDIAN ICONS

Radha Chakravarty

Tagore and Shakespeare: A Fraught Relationship

Himani Kapoor

Mapping Shakespeare and Kalidasa: Early Indian Translations

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

The essays are written in an academic standpoint and reveal many philosophical arguments to showcase the reach of Shakespeare and the methods to adapt it.

Free Press Journal,

5 March 2017

Key features

An adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays as a basis of critical exploration of identity formation in India.

Even while a conscious dismantling of colonization was happening since the 19th century, the Indian literati, intellectuals, scholars and dramaturges were engaged in deconstructing the ultimate icon of colonial presence—Shakespeare. This book delves into what constitutes Indianness in the postcolonial context by looking into the text and sub-text of the Bard of Avon’s plays adapted in visual culture, translation, stage performance and cinema.

The book is an important intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, as it explores how Shakespeare has impacted the emergence of regional identities around questions of language and linguistic empowerment in various ways. It reveals an extraordinary negotiation of colonial and postcolonial identity issues—be it in language, in social and cultural practices or in art forms.

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